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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition: Misfits

Weekend Edition: Misfits

12/04/2014

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition: Misfits

Global stories of those who stand out from the crowd - for good reasons and bad

Standing out from the crowd: encounters with a Salvadoran forensic scientist, Muslims in CAR, an Iraqi metalhead, a pair of Romanian plotters and an enigmatic manuscript.

Stories of those who swim against the tide, from around the world. Tim Whewell meets some of the few Muslims still in Central African Republic, left stranded by violence; Will Grant wonders what's on the mind of the only forensic archaeologist in El Salvador, where there are plenty of bodies to be unearthed; Gabriel Gatehouse reflects on what "Operation Iraqi Freedom" really brought to Baghdad. Simon Worrall examines the Voynich Manuscript, an enigmatic text that seems almost otherworldly; Monica Whitlock hears how a couple of Romanian friends secretly plotted against Ceasescu - and Kieran Cooke sticks out like a sore thumb in a planters' club in Assam, northeast India. 

Introduced by Pascale Harter.
Producer: Polly Hope

Photograph: A Muslim man with a head wound inflicted during an attack by "Anti-Balaka" militia on the village of Boda, Central African Republic, on 7 April, 2014. (MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)

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